Your Call show

Your Call

Summary: KALW's call-in show: Politics and culture, dialogue and debate.

Podcasts:

 Your Call: Isolating Qatar and the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3180

On the next Your Call, it’s our media roundtable. This week we’ll have a conversation about the Arab states' decision to isolate Qatar as well as the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War.

 Your Call: Taxi, Uber, and Lyft drivers discuss regulations | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3181

We’ll have a conversation with ride-hailing drivers, from taxis to Uber about how the industry ought to be regulated.

 Your Call: A roadmap to peace for San Francisco's Latino youth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3181

On today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with 2017 Peacemaker Award recipient, the Roadmap to Peace.

 Your Call: Robert Mercer & the dark money behind Donald Trump | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3122

We’ll revisit our conversation with investigative journalist Jane Mayer. We'll speak to Mayer about her piece in the New Yorker on Robert Mercer, the hedge-fund tycoon who made major investments to ensure Donald Trump’s victory.

 Your Call: Risks of reporting in Mexico & labor issues in California agriculture and at AT&T | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3185

It’s our media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss the risks of reporting in Mexico, including the recent shooting death of the well-known Mexican journalist Javier Valdez.

 Your Call: Let’s review the Congressional Review Act | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3186

We’ll talk about how congressional Republicans and the White House have used an obscure law to repeal regulations passed in the final months of the Obama administration.

 Your Call: This year's SF International Arts Festival | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3111

We’ll have a conversation about the San Francisco International Arts Festival, which takes place from May 25th to June 4th.

 Your Call: How Trump's global gag rule will affect women worldwide | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3180

We’ll have a conversation with Françoise Girard, president of the International Women's Health Coalition, about President Donald Trump’s v ast expansion of the Mexico City Policy, also known as the " Global Gag Rule."

 Your Call: Political chaos in Washington and media consolidation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3169

This week, we’ll discuss coverage of the growing political chaos in Washington DC. According to the NY Times, a memo by FBI chair James Comey says Donald Trump asked him to end the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his ties to Russia. We'll get the latest.

 Your Call: Big oil in California politics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3185

How did California become the third-biggest oil producing state?

 Your Call: Philanthropists reshaping democracy, to their preference | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3174

How much influence do the wealthy wield over our lives and public policy?

 Your Call: Writing and making art from inside juvenile hall | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3180

We’ll have a conversation about The Beat Within, a writing and conversation program in juvenile halls. The organization serves over 5,000 youth through workshops in California county juvenile halls.

 Your Call: The role of voter suppression in the 2016 election | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3182

The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.

 Your Call: Comey's firing & the exploitation of immigrant workers at a chicken plant | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2960

On this week's media roundtable, coverage of Donald Trump's abrupt firing of FBI director James Comey. The decision is being compared to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in October 1973, when he fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor handling the Watergate scandal. How should news organizations cover this story?

 Your Call: Taking inspiration from Fred Korematsu’s fight for justice | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2925

Authors Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi join us to discuss their new book , Fred Korematsu Speaks Up .

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